Person    | Male  Died 19/1/1917

Charles Downing

Categories: Tragedy

Charles Downing

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.

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Charles Downing

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Silvertown explosion - monument

Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...

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